Archived thread 53712 from Requests. Markdown source: Requests/thread_53712_lx-viewer.md
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/
"LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view, print and convert DWG or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting. "
seems like a pretty handy app for ppl who need to look at drawings from AutoCAD and many other CAD programs. As far as I can tell there's nothing that does the job in the Ubuntu repositories; Qcad is there (which I use) and can open dwg files, but given a .dxf file I needed a way to convert it.
I would also like to see LX-Viewer on Ubuntu (Hardy). Thanks
I would like to see it included in Hardy as well.
I would be interested in this in 8.10.
also interested in 8.10
From now on you can just install a linux version:
Just tested it and works in Ubuntu 11.10
Start TeighaFileConverter in your terminal.
bwakkie, Thanks but could I be a pain and ask for some step-by-step instructions on how to install. I'm a bit of a noob, only having seen the light 6 months ago, and I'm not getting a good result. I've trawled the net on how to use terminal properly but to no avail.
I opened terminal and wrote "sudo apt-get install TeighaFileConverter" but got "E: Could not find package TeighaFileConverter" as reply.
I searched through and found the package that was downloaded when I clicked on the link you provided but I don't understand how to use archive manager to extract it or where to extract it to or even if I'm extracting the right thing to extract!! Like I said.....NOOB!
I'd be grateful for any help
Regards Brad
I found a program called DraftSight which can read, write and convert between .dxf and .dwg files. It's a pretty good 2D CAD program to use aswell. As of April 7 2012, it wasn't listed in Software Centre. I had to download it from the website.
To install, I found this thread exceedingly useful.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1936716&highlight=draftsight
I hope this helps someone
lx-viewer can not read all the autocad files, they opnlyl support this files until the 2008 autocad version.
I found Teigha Viewer on http://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/teigha_viewer and run it on Ubuntu 12.04, it reads DWG files with limited sizes such 5 MB.
Also it is interesting to try DraftSight on http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/, but requires an activation or reinstallation to work for a while...
I installed TieghaFileConverter but I can't get it to run on the command line, all I get is
4: /usr/bin/TeighaFileConverter: /usr/bin/TeighaFileConverter_3.08.1/TeighaFileConverter: not foundAny insight in getting this to work on the commandline would be excellent.
For the most part lx-viewer would also be fine for my needs, and it works fine on x86 but I can't get it to compile on x64.